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NewsSmit Busy with Overseas Harbour and Terminal Towage
In late October, Smit announced the commencement of a new towage operation in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Known as Smit Harbour Towage Argentina, the new organisation has brought into operation the two recently delivered Damen ASD 2810 tugs Smit Jamaica, Smit Antigua and the conventional tug Buni. The new tugs are ...
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Stuart McNiven, managing director of Svitzer Marine Limited, left the company on 1September after five years in post and 20 years service with A.P. Moller-Maersk. Stuart is well known in the offshore and towage sector and has left on an amicable basis to pursue other business interests. James Curry, who ...
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NewsMobile Maintenance for Remote Lighthouses
Established MoD naval painting contractor Pyeroy Group is extending its maritime protective coatings work with new contract which will see it providing painting and refurbishment services to lighthouses in remote and exposed locations in the UK.
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NewsTrinity House's New Emergency Wreck Marking Buoys on Station
Trinity House has chosen Tideland Signal''s SB-98P polyethylene buoy and MLED-120SC lantern for use as its emergency wreck marking buoy in accordance with the new IALA Recommendation O-133 of December 2005.
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NewsSmall Ports NavComms Solution
The Port Marine Safety Code and other legislation makes it all the more important that even the smallest ports and harbours control their waters effectively. AIS on its own, a solution favoured by many ports, is unreliable since the accuracy of the information received depends upon the correct configuration of ...
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NewsHeliobond Toughens LCD Marine Monitors
Monitor manufacturer Kent Modular Electronics (KME) has introduced a new environmentally sealed transflective LCD screen, Heliobond, for use in marine applications such as bridge wing monitors, control room consoles and security monitors. The product was developed for international naval applications but KME has now set its sights on commercial marine ...
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NewsNew marine Operations Centre Commissioned for Aberdeen
The commissioning of Aberdeen Harbour''s new Marine Operations Centre marks another significant step forward in developing facilities to accommodate increasing and diversified traffic. It has been brought into use at a time of record activity at the port which is on course to handle annual cargo of more than 5 ...
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NewsDurability Counts in Workboat NavComms
Japan Radio Company, well known as a navigation and communications equipment supplier to the deep draught merchant fleets of the world, also produces equipment engineered specifically for the small commercial workboat and leisure boat industries.
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News'Chelsea' Sends the Tractors into Retirement
Plymouth UK based boat builders Ecocats picked up a significant award earlier this month when it carried off the Sustainable Products and Services gong at the Cornwall Sustainability Awards 2006. The Awards were developed by Cornwall County Council, the five District and Borough Councils, the UK Government''s Environment Agency, the ...
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News'Seabus' Set to Continue Clyde Ferry Tradition
Seabus, nearing completion at the Voyager Boatyard in Cornwall UK, is the latest passenger vessel to be built by the experienced yard. The 64m vessel is equipped to carry up to 100 foot passengers on a ferry service across Scotland''s River Clyde run by Greenock based Clyde Marine Services Ltd.
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NewsSystems Innovation for Dive Support Vessel
Through its Norwegian subsidiary Draeger Safety Norge, Draeger Safety has been contracted to take on the project management, planning, construction and delivery of a complete deep sea diving system, including extensive safety facilities and breathing gas logistics, for a Norwegian diving support vessel used in the offshore industry.
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NewsWet Weld Advances Boost Diver Training
Keeping pace with increasing demand for underwater wet welding services, Fred Mc Nally, managing director of Birkenhead UK based FJ Marine Services Ltd, has again called upon the training services provided by long-time associate David Keats of Specialty Welds Ltd.
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NewsRealistic ROV Simulator Launched
Hawaii based Marine Simulation LLC has released ROVsim, an affordable, physics accurate, and visually realistic Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) simulator. Using state of the art technologies originally developed for the video game industry and over two decades of hands-on industry experience, ROVsim? is optimized to simulate a wide range of ...
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NewsBOWTIS Takes Offshore Wind Deeper
The successful deployment of a new installation system has enabled the placement of the first offshore wind turbine to be installed in a single lift from a floating barge. The Beatrice Offshore Wind Turbine Installation System (BOWTIS), designed and built by Northumberland''s The Engineering Business Ltd, has led to the ...
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NewsRenewables Study for Western Isles
A new study, commissioned by Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western IslesCouncil), investigates the feasibility of creating a fixed transport link across the five mile wide Sound of Harris and the potential for generating renewable energy from the resources of the Sound to help offset capital expenditure.
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NewsMarine Construction Boom Sparks Dredger Building Response
The global boom in port construction and land reclamation works has sparkedconfident fleet renewal programmes by the major international dredging contractors, with the emphasis currently on versatile medium size trailer suction hopper dredgers.
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NewsA Tidal Advantge at Sovereign Harbour
Sovereign Harbour is an exclusive residential development set around a series of complex marinas and tidal basins in Eastbourne, East Sussex UK. The entrance feature to the site consists of a large breakwater and a tidal outer harbour, which allows shelter and emergency mooring facilities for boats, before a pair ...
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News$100m New Marine Works for Jan De Nul
Belgian marine construction and dredging contractor Jan De Nul has been awarded two contracts by Aker/Exxon relating to the Adriatic LNG contract. At Algeciras in Spain a berm and tow-out channel must be dredged to allow a large Gravity Base Structure (GBS) constructed in dry dock there to be towed ...
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NewsBridge Refurbishment Awarded
At a value in the region of £ 2.5 million, the order to refurbish the Lowestoft Bridge in Suffolk is Bosch Rexroth''s single largest order in the UK. Placed in July 2006 the order is to undertake some major electrical and mechanical refurbishment work on the twin bascule bridge, which ...
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NewsRestoration Completed of Queen's Stairs
The Crown Estate and Greenwich Foundation in the UK have completed the restoration of the historic Queen''s Stairs on the banks of the River Thames at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich. These are the steps over which Admiral Lord Nelson''s coffin was carried before and after his lying in ...
